Polish.



No. ra'asoi.

Patented July 14, 1903.

PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN F. MYERS, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

POLISH.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 733,591, dated July 14, 1903.

Application filed May 2, 1903. V Serial No. 155,414. (No specimens.)

To all wham, it Tracey concern.-

Be it-known that 1, JOHN F. MYERS, a citizen of the United States, residing at New York, New York county, New York State, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Polishes, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to polishes, more particularly to stove-polishes.

It is the object of my invention to provide a polish which is non-infiammable and nonexplosive. Such a polish may be used with entire safety at all times.

Heretofore polishes of a liquid or pasty form have included inflammable or explosive ingredients, which have rendered them dangerous to manufacture, store, or use.

My improved polish consists, essentially, of a base composed of a graphite, plumbago, or other suitable mineral product, which is mixed with tetrachlorid of carbon, the same acting as a vehicle for the same. It will thus be apparent that this agent aids in conveying said base to its intended destination-for example, the outside of a stove orother metallic surface that it is desired to polish. After the polish is applied the tetrachlorid of carbon, being exposed to the air, will evaporate and leave the base in a thin layer over the surface to which it has been applied. After this the said coating may be rubbed down and polished in the usual way by a cloth or brush. By employing tetrachlorid of carbon as a vehicle for the polish I am also permitted to utilize benzin in the mixture without danger. I prefer to use benzin as one of the ingredients, since I have found that superior results are attained.

To that end I have mixed with the liquefying agent as much as twenty per cent. of benzin of 62 Baum without securing a product which will give off gases of an inflammable or explosive nature. lVhile I have spoken of twenty per cent. of benzin as being the quantity that I have employed, I do not mean that it need not be more or less nor do I mean that the presence of benzin is essential. Included in this mixture I also preferably use a coloringmatter-for example, carbon black or the like-and also an adhesive agent-for example,varnishthe function of the former being to give to the base a decidedly black coloring,

the function of the latter being to cause the base to cling tenaceously to the surface to which the polish is applied. These ingredients are added in such proportions as are Well known to the mechanic skilled in the art of making polishes.

One example of a formula for making a polish for stoves or other metal surfaces, in which I employ all of these diiferent ingredients, is as follows: Thirty pounds of graphite or plumbago, five pounds of carbonblack, five pounds of varnish, adding any desired amount of a liquid vehicle to reduce said solids to the desired liquid or pasty state, said liquidbeing composed of eighty per cent. tetrachlorid of carbon and twenty per cent. of benzin of 62 Baum. These different in gredients when mixed together and agitated assume a consistency depending upon the quantity of the liquid employed. Hence the polish may be marketed either in the form of paste or in the form of a liquid, according to the desires of the manufacturer or user.

I have found that the tetrachlorid of car I bon neutralizes the inflammable and explosive qualities of the benzin, so that the polish may be manufactured, stored, or used with entire safety.

WVhile I have spoken of benzin as an element of the liquid agent, it should be understood that other products of petroleum or oils may be substituted, and therefore in using the term benzin I intend to include such other products as may be useful in supplementing the tetrachlorid of carbon.

This polish is useful not only in blacking and polishing stoves, but it may be employed in polishing nickel, brass, or other bright work.

hat I claim is 1. A polish composed of a mineral base mixed with tetrachlorid of carbon as a vehicle therefor.

2. A polish composed of a mineral base of graphite mixed with tetrachlorid of carbon as a vehicle therefor.

3. A polish composed of a base of graphite mixed with a liquid vehicle composed of tetrachlorid of carbon and a lesser quantity of benzin.

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et. A polish composed of a base of graphite mixed with a liquid vehicle containing tetra- 7. A polish composed of amineral base and chlorid of carbon, said polish including also a a liquid vehicle containing benzin and an black coloring-matter. agent to neutralize the inflainniable'and ex- 5. A polish composed of a base of graphite plosive qualities thereof. 5 and a liquid Vehicle containing tetraohlorid Signed at New York, N. Y., this 1st day of I5 of carbon, a lesser quantity of benzin and an May, 1903.

adhesive agent. JOHN F. MYERS.

6. A polish composed of a mineral base YVitnesses: mixed with a non-inflammable and non-expl0- R. O. MITCHELL,

1o sive chlorid of carbon as avehicle therefor. L. VREELAND. 

